[PDF] The Unique Legacy Of Weird Tales eBook

Author : Justin Everett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442256222

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When the pulp magazine Weird Tales appeared on newsstands in 1923, it proved to be a pivotal moment in the evolution of speculative fiction. Living up to its nickname, “The Unique Magazine,” Weird Tales provided the first real venue for authors writing in the nascent genres of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Weird fiction pioneers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Catherine L. Moore, and many others honed their craft in the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, and their work had a tremendous influence on later generations of genre authors. In The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, Justin Everett and Jeffrey Shanks have assembled an impressive collection of essays that explore many of the themes critical to understanding the importance of the magazine. This multi-disciplinary collection from a wide array of scholars looks at how Weird Tales served as a locus of genre formation and literary discourse community. There are also chapters devoted to individual authors—including Lovecraft, Howard, and Bloch—and their particular contributions to the magazine. As the literary world was undergoing a revolution and mass-produced media began to dwarf high-brow literature in social significance, Weird Tales managed to straddle both worlds. This collection of essays explores the important role the magazine played in expanding the literary landscape at a very particular time and place in American culture. The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales will appeal to scholars and aficionados of fantasy, horror, and weird fiction and those interested in the early roots of these popular genres.

Author : Robert Weinberg
Publisher : Pulp Hero Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781683902225

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The Weirdest Story Ever Told In this definitive history and analysis of Weird Tales magazine, Robert Weinberg's original narrative is expanded and enhanced with contributions from a who's who of pulp scholars, including S.T. Joshi, Darrell Schweitzer, Mike Ashley, Rob Roehm, Bobby Derie, Jason Ray Carney, Adrian Cole, Morgan Holmes, and Terence E. Hanley. The new material includes chapters on the most influential contributors to Weird Tales, as well as contemperaneous authors who should have been contributors to Weird Tales but who were not. The history of the magazine is extended past its initial demise in 1954, and the cover story of the first issue, Anthony Rud's "Ooze," is reprinted in its entirety. ..."dive in and refresh your memories, or, if this is all new to you, find out what it was all about, and be amazed, dazzled and inspired!" -Award-winning author Adrian Cole

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This edition represents a select collection of Lovecrafs's greatest horror & fantasy works. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Some of Lovecraft's work was inspired by his own nightmares. His interest started from his childhood days when his grandfather stirred his interest in the weird by telling him his own original tales of Gothic horror. Contents: Dagon The Statement of Randolph Carter The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs From Beyond The Temple Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Quest of Iranon The Moon-Bog The Outsider Herbert West—Reanimator The Hound The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival The Shunned House The Horror at Red Hook He Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu Pickman's Model The Strange High House in the Mist The Silver Key The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Colour Out of Space The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing on the Doorstep The Evil Clergyman The Haunter of the Dark

Author : Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov. Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre from Cosmic Horror, Sword and Sorcery, Space Opera, to the Truly Weird—things too strange to publish elsewhere, and the magazine’s raison d’etre. Landmark stories such as “The Call of Cthulhu”, “Worms of the Earth”, and “Legal Rites” stand beside original stories and insightful essays from today’s masters of speculative fiction. This visually stunning hardcover edition is a collector’s dream, illustrated throughout with classic full color and black & white art from past issues of Weird Tales Magazine.

Author : Chet Williamson
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080953214X

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This is the special Chet Williamson issue of Weird Tales, which features an interview and 3 stories by Williamson. Also features contributions from Ian Watson, R. Bretnor, Fred Chappell, and STEPHEN KING!

Author : Clark Ashton Smith
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612107931

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A Clark Ashton Smith Single. Set the in the Land of Averoigne a narrative by written by the young Christophe Morand about his unaccountable disappearance in 1798.

Author : H. Lovecraft
Publisher :
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2020-07-04
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IN MARCH 1923, the first issue of WEIRD TALES hit the sidewalk newsstands. Subtitled the "Unique Magazine," it created a venue for weird fiction and poetry. Until then, there was no magazine devoted to horror, fantasy and the occult. In September 1954, after 279 issues, publication stopped. FROM the VAULTS of WEIRD TALES: VOUME 1 collects ELEVEN tales gathered from the original 279 issue run. The Phantom Farm House (Seabury Quinn, October 1923, Vol. 2, No. 3); The Canal (Everil Worrell, December 1927, Vol. 10, No. 6); Naked Lady (Mindret Lord, September 1934, Vol. 24, No. 3); Tiger Cat (David H. Keller, October 1937, Vol. 30, No. 4); The Shadow on the Screen (Henry Kuttner, March 1938, Vol. 31, No. 3); Vine Terror (Howard Wandrei, Sept. 1934, Vol. 24, No. 3); The Sea-Witch (Nictzin Dyalhis, December 1937, Vol. 30, No. 6); Ooze (Anthony M. Rud, March 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1) The Chain of Aforgomon (Clark Ashton Smith, Dec. 1935, Vol., 26 No. 6); The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft, February 1928, Vol. 11, No. 2); The Tower of the Elephant (Robert E. Howard, March 1933, Vol. 21, No. 3)

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434437825

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Weird Tales #325 (Fall 2001) features "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth," by Darrell Schweitzer; "The Gravedigger's Apprentice," by Alvin Helms; "Our Temporary Supervisor," by Thomas Ligotti; "Where All Things Perish," by Tanith Lee; "The Wizard of Ashes and Rain," by David Sandner, and more.

Author : Jason Ray Carney
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476636141

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 Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like the "Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard. They did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to the stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, these three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about such philosophical questions as the function of art and the brevity of life.